She says that other rights, including access to birth control and IVF, might be in play as well, partially because what abortion is defined as is contested too. Mary Ziegler is a law professor who studies abortion rights. The decision for Mississippi's highly watched abortion case won't come until next year, but some are already looking ahead to what else could be changed if Roe v. "Freedom of speech is not different from freedom of reproduction." "What democracy means is the right to make decisions for ourselves, and in the majority to make decisions for the country, but first to make it for ourselves," she said. after abortion had been legal for so many years. Steinem said this wasn't a surprise, but that she was surprised this was still happening in the U.S. "In this still patriarchal time, looking to control the one thing they don't have is the first effort in creating a hierarchy." "Controlling reproduction has always been the first step in any hierarchical or authoritarian government," she said. "That is the simplest way of putting it, and that is what the court has to decide."īut overturning the right to abortion would be a step toward making the U.S. "The question is whether it will be done in safety or not," Steinem told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. Wade would not stop Americans from seeking abortions. Speaking from her own abortion experience in 1957, Steinem said a decision to overturn Roe v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, is a challenge to the Mississippi law that currently bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. At the center of the case, known as Dobbs v.
Like many, Steinem has followed the Supreme Court arguments about the Mississippi abortion case. Before Gloria Steinem became the nationally recognized activist for abortion rights and feminism, she was a 22-year-old living in England and pregnant when she didn't want to be.
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